Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-03-25
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.


woman living IN Olalla, Ore. has
killed seven bears this winter.
The Marquis Of Lothian will succeed
5Balfonr as Secretary Of State for Scot.
land. 3 95ss5 s.
Germany demands the release of six
OF the Bulgarian rebels. Two Of them.
however have already been shot.
1T is reported that the Emperor Of
Austria has privately said that Russia
had withdrawn from the triple alliance.
Hotelkeepers Of Nice are, selling
out at q great sacrifice ia consequence
Of the panic caused by therecent earth
quakes.
Prof. Alexander Agassiz has lately
received the honorary degree Of Doctor
Of Science from the University of Cam
bridge.
A National convention of School
Superintendent from all parts Of the
country was held lin Washington
March Is, 16, and II. n
Queen Victoria gets six or seven tele-
grams a day from Darmstadt informing
her Of the condition Of the sick Alexan-
der, late Of Bulgaria.
Gen. Crook favors giving Indians
the ballot because ..they know more
about our Government than many emf
grants who come here.'' ...
Report says that Mr.. t. B. Aldrich
has dog trained to carry rolls Of MS.
sent in by would-be contributors to the
Atlantic Monthly and drop them into
the waste-basket. = 1
IT is stated that the Executive Com
mittee of The Western Union Telegraph
Company has recommended the Board
of Directors MOTTO declare any dividend
for the quarter. .,,s.<
The wife of a PassaicC County IN. j.
farmer gave birth on Washington
Birthday to four babies, all of whom
are alive and likely to grow to mans
! estate. ~. '>E &%E
A proposition has been made that il
the citizens of Waupun would give q
bonus of So, 900 responsible parties
would erect hotel building, to cost not
less than $4,000. Subscriptions are
being secured. r. ~ 80. =. 9. II
The State Departmenthas forwarded
to the American Minister at Berlin in
structions to investigate the arrest by
the German Governor of Richarc
Reabecker, a citizen StrAsburg
Shelby County, III. :.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says: 81
is rumored that Lawrence Barrett
eldest unmarried daughter is to wee
Edwin Booth. This was the rea
reason of Barrett's undertaking tn,
management of Booth this season.
Cassius NJ. Clay has Cancelled hi
appointments to speak throughout thu
State Of Kentucky, but adheres to hi
purpose to run for the Office of Cover
nor. In this respect he remains a Ken
tuckian. ..- .....
s'Marvelously extensive and ricl
gold-quartz veins,' the dispatches say
have been discovered in the Transvaa
gold-felds, and which, when fully de
veloped, will prove among the riches
in the world. 81. s. Id
Messrs. Napier of Glasgow has jus
shipped for Sebastopol the largest set o
triple expansion engines that have eve
been constructed for a man-of-war
They are of $4,000 horsepower and ar,
intended for the new Russian ironcla,
Sinope. @,.'55
! William Opel of Howell, Mich, i
81 years old, a bachelor, and miser
He is worth several thousands of dol
lars, and yet the other day he fell il
the street exhausted for want of food
In the howell where he lives were foun,
- sack of -four and several hundred
dollars in silver. The old man insist
that he ought to go to the poorhouse:
Mr.. N. r. Chase, capitalist of Bos
ton, announces that, in his opinion
having been an employerof labor fifteel
years, every man ought to receive S
per hour for hour for his labor or tim
and that he ought to sell but five hour
per day at most. MIR. Chase will hav
| but little difficulty in filling his work
or these terms. ssrsss -~. Is
/ Craig Tolliver, the Rowan Count
+ (Ky. desperate, has been in Cincinnati
purchasing dry goods to the amount 9
$4,000. He is now a Deputy Sheriff 9
the county he has terrorized, is q peace
full and law-abiding citizen, and has
successful business. He never drinks
whisky, and has given up carrying a re
vOlver. @
Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist, ha
given to the First Methodist Episcops
Church of Newcastle the shandsomes
church building lot in the city. It
valued at 1900 and is given on tn
condition that the congregation wi
1 at once erect church that will cost 8
least $4,000. Mr.. Sankey was Dor
In Newcastle. and some years ag
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